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Friendships I think can also be soul mates. — Cameron Diaz

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops. — John Buford

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world! — Lorraine Hansberry

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. — Lorraine Hansberry

For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - our place. — Lorraine Hansberry

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well. — Kathleen Turner

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change. — Lorraine Hansberry

In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. — Lorraine Hansberry

Hard work often produces better results than talent. — Lisa Kleypas

Perhaps I will be a great man ... I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course — Lorraine Hansberry

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry

You're a nice-looking girl ... all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere. — Lorraine Hansberry

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin! — Lorraine Hansberry

Value your life, not by the years, but the difference you made in the lives of others. — Debasish Mridha

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world. — Lorraine Hansberry

I was born black and female. — Lorraine Hansberry

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other. — Lorraine Hansberry

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? — Lorraine Hansberry

That's what being eccentric means
being natural. — Lorraine Hansberry

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time. — Michael Scott

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women — Lorraine Hansberry

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. — Young Jeezy

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. — Lorraine Hansberry

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike. — Lorraine Hansberry

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is. — Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. — Leo Rosten

DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS! -Wilson — Lorraine Hansberry

The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room. — Bram Stoker

In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day. — Garance Dore

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids. — Rick Riordan

Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman. — Lorraine Hansberry

It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace. — Lorraine Hansberry

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest. — Lorraine Hansberry

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars. — Lorraine Hansberry

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven. — Lorraine Hansberry

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. — Lorraine Hansberry

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first. — Lorraine Hansberry

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I want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ... — Lorraine Hansberry

I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids. — Roz Chast